Skitch : Draw images, write on images, save on the web or export to your desktop. Easy to use. Intuitive. Google Reader, Google Docs, Google Notebook, Google Presentation Bebo : Social Networking Tool with a more gentle feel than MySpace. Flickr : Photo storage and sharing. Easy to use. Easy to organize. Voki: Lively little digital puppets. Connect student writing with a spoken puppet, then post on a wiki or blog. VoiceThreads: Spoken words, images, video and collaboration all in one interface. Well designed for education and classroom use. VOTW : Voices of the World Project. A collaborative project with numerous teachers around the world. Specifically designed by Scottish teacher Sharon Tonner to enable students to collaborative using spoken media. Students love hearing the voices! Animoto: 30 second professional looking slideshows. WeatherPixie: Want to know what the weather is like where you are?
Especially for Teachers
Zamzar: If YouTube is blocked at you school, you can use this site to download and convert YouTube Videos to a format you can use.
Delicious : popular web based bookmarking site. Why use this? You can find your bookmarks anytime, anywhere. Your bookmarks can follow you from computer to computer. You can send other delicious users (your students) bookmarks, and they can send some to you. You can send your students to your page to find resources you have tagged. You can follow a trail of bookmarks other users have made to find more links to similar topics.
Bloglines : Popular RSS aggregater the will collect all the recent posts from blogs you like. Click on your Bloglines feeds to read what is new without having to go from one blog to another. TutorialFeedburner and Google Reader do the same thing. All work well.
Edublogger : Start at the beginning of this blog, and you will learn a series of skills you can use to make your WordPress blog interactive and fun. Written in a teaching format, the blog is designed to help edubloggers learn how to do everything from change their display name, set up a cluster map, work with RSS, and more. Directions are clear, and created with the inexperienced blogger in mind!
Classroom 2.0 : Join this Ning social networking community and you will tap into a diverse and create group of teachers working to integrate literacy, digital citizenship, and collaborative technologies into their classrooms.
Untested.....but look interesting
Check out this list of Open Source Tools at SolidOffice called MacStack
Kids Heart These Tools:
Skitch : Draw images, write on images, save on the web or export to your desktop. Easy to use. Intuitive.Google Reader, Google Docs, Google Notebook, Google Presentation
Bebo : Social Networking Tool with a more gentle feel than MySpace.
Flickr : Photo storage and sharing. Easy to use. Easy to organize.
Voki: Lively little digital puppets. Connect student writing with a spoken puppet, then post on a wiki or blog.
VoiceThreads: Spoken words, images, video and collaboration all in one interface. Well designed for education and classroom use.
VOTW : Voices of the World Project. A collaborative project with numerous teachers around the world. Specifically designed by Scottish teacher Sharon Tonner to enable students to collaborative using spoken media. Students love hearing the voices!
Animoto: 30 second professional looking slideshows.
WeatherPixie: Want to know what the weather is like where you are?
Especially for Teachers
Zamzar: If YouTube is blocked at you school, you can use this site to download and convert YouTube Videos to a format you can use.Delicious : popular web based bookmarking site. Why use this? You can find your bookmarks anytime, anywhere. Your bookmarks can follow you from computer to computer. You can send other delicious users (your students) bookmarks, and they can send some to you. You can send your students to your page to find resources you have tagged. You can follow a trail of bookmarks other users have made to find more links to similar topics.
Bloglines : Popular RSS aggregater the will collect all the recent posts from blogs you like. Click on your Bloglines feeds to read what is new without having to go from one blog to another. Tutorial Feedburner and Google Reader do the same thing. All work well.
Edublogger : Start at the beginning of this blog, and you will learn a series of skills you can use to make your WordPress blog interactive and fun. Written in a teaching format, the blog is designed to help edubloggers learn how to do everything from change their display name, set up a cluster map, work with RSS, and more. Directions are clear, and created with the inexperienced blogger in mind!
Classroom 2.0 : Join this Ning social networking community and you will tap into a diverse and create group of teachers working to integrate literacy, digital citizenship, and collaborative technologies into their classrooms.
Untested.....but look interesting
Check out this list of Open Source Tools at SolidOffice called MacStackHow RSS Works:
Blogging Resources for Beginners This link will bring you to a very informative page about beginning blogging.